podcast

podcast

(iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast converted to MP3 for playback in a portable music player. Although podcasts can be played in a computer, the original concept targeted iPods. Podcasts may also be in the AAC format, which most music players support.

Podcasts can be downloaded from the Web or available via a syndication format. In the latter case, users install a media aggregator program (a "podcatcher") in their computers such as iTunes or Juice, which captures the audio feeds from the Internet for transfer to the player. See syndication format.

Podcasting Everything Conceived as a way to listen to audio broadcasts, podcasting evolved to include images and video (see photofeed and vidcast). Electronic slide shows are created as podcasts (see enhanced podcast), and "sound seeing" is the audio recording of a person's experiences when traveling. Some museums make audio tours available as podcasts, and art students and professors create their own unauthorized and often controversial narrations of famous works. See autocasting, punchcasting, learncasting and audiobook.

Actually, I despise as much as you do--maybe more--the fact that the covers of audio magazines are typically sold to generate advertising revenue (we were not the first to do this), but I cannot get as worked up as you do about this particular cover, which, by the way, was not sold.

A few years back The $ensible Sound along with a couple of other audio magazines reviewed Sound Dynamics (RTS 3 and others) loudspeakers with glowing praise for producing great sound for little money and now they aren't mentioned anywhere in any of the staff picks (that I can tell).

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